Planet Normal

By The Telegraph

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Subscribers: 340
Reviews: 4
Episodes: 195


 May 25, 2023

Jamie Wood
 May 17, 2021
Followed this since day one. absolutely fantastic, sometimes heart warming, other times heart breaking. My wife and I love this and recommend it highly.


 Sep 14, 2020
reactionary shite

Liana Murphy
 Aug 16, 2020
One of the best podcasts I listen to!

Description

The podcast that speaks your language. News and views from beyond the bubble with Telegraph columnists, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan, every Thursday.

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Episode Date
The Battle of Brussels
Apr 17, 2024
The case of the Cass Report
Apr 10, 2024
Not a first class health service
Apr 03, 2024
Tory MPs for hire
Mar 28, 2024
Four Prime Ministers, 1 Parliament
Mar 21, 2024
More political tremors
Mar 14, 2024
A Spring Budget haunted by the OBR
Mar 07, 2024
The Army up in arms over housing
Feb 29, 2024
Don't Panic!
Feb 22, 2024
Stick to the plan
Feb 15, 2024
The rise of Reform and 'Pop Con'
Feb 08, 2024
The Business of Brexit
Feb 01, 2024
Talk of a Tory regicide
Jan 25, 2024
Exclusive Interview with Fujitsu insider
Jan 17, 2024
New Year, Old Scandals
Jan 11, 2024
Best voyages from the festive Rocket 2023: Part 2
Jan 04, 2024
Best voyages from the festive Rocket 2023: Part 1
Dec 28, 2023
Jingle Bell Rocket
Dec 21, 2023
When Tory Tribes Go To War
Dec 14, 2023
Ineptitude masking as progress
Dec 07, 2023
Busy getting on with ‘just delivering’
Nov 30, 2023
Autumn Statement Special
Nov 22, 2023
A controversial Cabinet reshuffle
Nov 16, 2023
The Power and Pain of the Protest
Nov 09, 2023
The Inquiry
Nov 02, 2023
365 days on Planet Rishi
Oct 25, 2023
Turmoil continues in Israel
Oct 18, 2023
A Glittering Labour Conference
Oct 11, 2023
Plans for a Post Rishi World
Oct 04, 2023
Pre party conference fever
Sep 27, 2023
Liz Truss on her ‘pro-growth’ economy and traditional Conservative policies
Sep 20, 2023
Should we be picking on pensioners?
Sep 13, 2023
Back to school, back to politics
Sep 06, 2023
And they're back...
Aug 31, 2023
Best bits from the rocket: Part 4
Aug 23, 2023
Best bits from the rocket: Part 3
Aug 16, 2023
Best bits from the rocket: Part 2
Aug 09, 2023
Best bits from the rocket: Part 1
Aug 02, 2023
A tale of two Allisons
Jul 26, 2023
A heat storm in a teacup
Jul 19, 2023
The BBC, the Bank of England and "bonus holes"
Jul 12, 2023
National Health Service or National disaster?
Jul 06, 2023
It's just not cricket
Jun 28, 2023
The economy, stupid
Jun 21, 2023
Mad night at the circus
Jun 14, 2023
"I told you so" doesn't quite say it
Jun 07, 2023
Through the looking glass
May 31, 2023
The great Tory immigration lie
May 24, 2023
A tale of two conferences
May 18, 2023
Mr and Mrs Despairing Tory
May 10, 2023
The Coronation, fears of inflation, and political evisceration?
May 03, 2023
New elites and selfish stunts
Apr 19, 2023
Is the NHS on its deathbed?
Apr 12, 2023
Political plate tectonics
Apr 05, 2023
Planet Normal’s Lockdown Heroes
Mar 29, 2023
How Sweden stood firm: Anders Tegnell looks back on lockdown
Mar 23, 2023
Spring Budget Special
Mar 16, 2023
Tough talking on small boats
Mar 09, 2023
Truth triumphs on lockdown and lab leak
Mar 02, 2023
War on cultural vandalism
Feb 23, 2023
So long Sturgeon
Feb 16, 2023
Truss’s turbulent return
Feb 09, 2023
Taking on the Brexit bashers
Feb 02, 2023
Death by 100 tiny scandals
Jan 26, 2023
School's out for winter!
Jan 19, 2023
New year news tsunami
Jan 12, 2023
Best bits 2022
Dec 22, 2022
Happy winter closure period
Dec 15, 2022
The 12 days of strike-mas
Dec 08, 2022
Immigration wars
Dec 01, 2022
Are the Tories falling apart?
Nov 24, 2022
Autumn statement stealth tactics
Nov 17, 2022
Not a lot of Cop (27)
Nov 10, 2022
A post-Halloween witch hunt
Nov 03, 2022
Can Sunak stop the perma-crisis?
Oct 26, 2022
Lord Frost and Lionel Shriver on Braverman, budgets and Brexit
Oct 20, 2022
Caught in the doom loop
Oct 12, 2022
Tory Party Psychodrama
Oct 05, 2022
Mini-budget, big problem
Sep 28, 2022
End of an Era
Sep 21, 2022
Trussonomics
Sep 07, 2022
Lights out for Boris
Aug 31, 2022
Anyone seen the Government?
Aug 24, 2022
Cost of lockdown crisis
Aug 17, 2022
An entirely captainless ship
Aug 10, 2022
End of the road for Rishi?
Aug 04, 2022
Gloves off in Tory leader race
Jul 27, 2022
Jumping off the Boris bus
Jul 06, 2022
A.B.B: Anyone But Boris
Jun 29, 2022
Tricky times for the Tories
Jun 22, 2022
Battle for the soul of the Conservative Party
Jun 15, 2022
Last chance saloon for Boris
Jun 08, 2022
Terrific Queen, shame about the country
Jun 01, 2022
A Gray day for Parliament
May 25, 2022
Woke Wars
May 18, 2022
100 voyages, two co-pilots, one podcast
May 11, 2022
Complacency coma
May 04, 2022
Leg-gate, Labour and leadership troubles
Apr 27, 2022
Marathon of contrition
Apr 20, 2022
Tsunami of woes
Apr 13, 2022
Economic rubber hits the road
Apr 06, 2022
National Health Disservice
Mar 30, 2022
Spring Statement Special
Mar 24, 2022
Adding fuel to the cost of living fire
Mar 17, 2022
All paths lead to Moscow
Mar 10, 2022
Putin pushes on in Ukraine
Mar 03, 2022
One and a half cheers for Boris Johnson
Feb 23, 2022
Russia's big gamble on Ukraine
Feb 17, 2022
Soaking up the political gravy
Feb 10, 2022
Pyramid of piffle
Feb 03, 2022
All eyes on Sue Gray
Jan 27, 2022
A prime minister in trouble
Jan 20, 2022
Lord Frost on Partygate, Brexit and why he quit the Cabinet
Jan 13, 2022
A pandemic of testing
Jan 06, 2022
A crackers Christmas
Dec 23, 2021
Penny Mordaunt on Omicron hysteria, rebel MPs and Brexit
Dec 16, 2021
Parties, Plan B and betrayal
Dec 09, 2021
The 'moronic' variant
Dec 02, 2021
The Numpty Class
Nov 25, 2021
A full-blown Winter of Discontent
Nov 18, 2021
Sleaze, statistics and a sing-song
Nov 11, 2021
The Great, the Good, the Greta
Nov 04, 2021
The Big Budget Breakdown
Oct 27, 2021
He was everyone's equal
Oct 20, 2021
That Covid report
Oct 13, 2021
The boat that didn't rock
Oct 06, 2021
Teeny gains for Labour
Sep 29, 2021
All the ingredients for a perfect storm
Sep 22, 2021
Straight sets, straight talking
Sep 15, 2021
Welcome to tax-and-spend Toryism
Sep 08, 2021
Nailed to the naughty step
Sep 01, 2021
The great jabs-for-kids debate
Aug 25, 2021
One hell of a week on Planet Earth
Aug 18, 2021
Grade A mess
Aug 11, 2021
More flip-flops than a summer holiday
Aug 04, 2021
The War of the Noses
Jul 14, 2021
The juggle struggle
Jul 07, 2021
England in, Hancock out
Jun 30, 2021
Top hats, PPE and crashing disappointment
Jun 23, 2021
A whole new level of lunacy
Jun 16, 2021
Pearson vs. Lockdown
Jun 09, 2021
Chinese whispers
Jun 02, 2021
The gloves are off
May 26, 2021
Fear, fear and more fear
May 19, 2021
Nonsense on stilts
May 12, 2021
Fifty voyages, two co-pilots, one podcast
May 05, 2021
A Midsummer Night's Nightmare
Apr 28, 2021
Get out of my pub!
Apr 21, 2021
Good haircuts, bad grammar
Apr 14, 2021
Passport to nowhere
Apr 07, 2021
Breadcrumbs of freedom
Mar 31, 2021
Oddly reassuring, reassuringly odd
Mar 25, 2021
All out vaccine war
Mar 18, 2021
Courageous stupidity
Mar 11, 2021
What’s a trillion pounds among friends?
Mar 04, 2021
Eyes on the road
Feb 25, 2021
Hawks and Doves
Feb 18, 2021
Just one more heave
Feb 11, 2021
Tomorrow will be a good day
Feb 04, 2021
Who'd be a student?
Jan 28, 2021
In defence of scepticism
Jan 21, 2021
Scotch eggs for all
Jan 14, 2021
A very short dry January
Jan 07, 2021
Oh, what a year!
Dec 31, 2020
A Planet Normal Christmas
Dec 24, 2020
Great British common sense
Dec 17, 2020
It’s all a bit fishy
Dec 10, 2020
A different type of long Covid
Dec 03, 2020
The Five Days of Christmas
Nov 26, 2020
A maze of madness
Nov 19, 2020
The National Covid Service
Nov 12, 2020
A news tsunami
Nov 05, 2020
Do you Care Minister?
Oct 29, 2020
The billion pound Covid drop
Oct 21, 2020
It'll all end in tiers
Oct 14, 2020
Why the woke need to wake up
Oct 07, 2020
A case of Covid-mania
Sep 30, 2020
Science vs Spin
Sep 23, 2020
You have to laugh
Sep 16, 2020
Blighty not frighty
Sep 09, 2020
The Great Awokening
Sep 02, 2020
Red tape and coral spacesuits
Aug 27, 2020
"We don't need to be world-leading, we just need to be competent"
Aug 20, 2020
The ultimate Marmite man
Aug 12, 2020
We can't we all just get along?
Aug 05, 2020
A war on history
Jul 29, 2020
The truth about the NHS
Jul 22, 2020
Don't be afraid to be a contrarian
Jul 15, 2020
The magic money forest
Jul 08, 2020
Now is the Summer of our Discontent
Jul 01, 2020
Banking on a return to normality
Jun 24, 2020
We Need to Talk About Unpopular Opinions
Jun 17, 2020
The Great British Brain Unwashing
Jun 11, 2020
From China to the Clapham omnibus
Jun 03, 2020
We have lift-off
May 28, 2020